The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-17

- ~ SOe-A1aSA-@AS AHC Va SdIA COUNTY
hen seventy of said one thousand
dollar bonds of said county. or so MANY
thereof, not exceeding the sum of two
thousand dollars per mile, so completed
and In operation as aforesaid, from said
city OF Emporia to the north boundary
line OF said county, shall be duly issued
and delivered to said railway company
On delivery or tender to the county treas
urer Of said county of certificate for
so many shares Of the full paid capital
stock of said railway company, as shall
Of the bonds of said county
delivered as aforesaid, and when
said railroad is completed and
in operation by lease or otherwise
as aforesaid from the north boundary
line of said Lyon county to the city of
Atchison, Kansas, or to point at or
near the city of st. Joseph, Missouri,
making one continuous line from said
city of Emporia to either one of said
points, then the remainder of said one
hundred and fifty of said one thousand
shall be duly issued and delivered to
said railway company on delivery or
tender to the county treasurer of
said county, of certificate for
so many shares of the full paid
capital stock of said railway company
as shall equal, dollar for dollar, the
amount of the bonds Of said county, de-
ivered as aforesaid, and the said board
of county commissioners of said Lyon
county in each of the aforesaid cases, or
provisions shall duly issue or cause
such bonds with coupons attached as
aforesaid, to be issued at the times and
in the manner, and for the respective
amounts aforesaid, in the name of said
county of Lyon and shall deliver the
same at the times, in the manner and in
the amounts aforesaid to said railway
company on delivery or tender to the
county treasurer of said county of Lyon
q certificate or certificates at the times
and in the manner and in and for the
several and respective amounts afore-
said for said shares Of the full paid
equal in amount dollar for dollar, and
provided further that the main line of
the railroad of said railway COM
pany shall be built and completed and
in operation by lease or otherwise
to the west boundary line of the corpor-
ate limits of said city of Emporia on or
before the first day of July, 1888, and to
the west boundary line of said Lyon
county on or before the 31st day of De-
cember, 1888, and to the north boundary
line of said Lyon county on or before
further, that no part of said line of rail-
road from AtchiSon to Emporia and from
Kansas City, Missouri, to the said city
of Emporia, shall be leased or operated
by any railroad company now
owning or operating any
present existing line of railroad in
said county of Lyon, and provided
further that Emporia shall be the end
of the first division of said railroad
from Kansas City, and the junction of
the northern line or branch with the
main line of the railroad of said railway
company and that the necessary depots
for the convenient handling of freight
and passengers, shall be built and
maintained forever within the corporate
limits of said city of Emporia, and
build and maintain depot with side
track at such point west
of a line running north and south
through the geographical center of
Pike township in said Lyon county as
may be selected and located by said
railway company, and build and main
township in said Lyon county south of
the south boundary line of sections Nos.
"a, 30 and So, in Township II, of Range
IL, and west of Dow Creek at such
point at or within one mile of sections
2 and in Township No. 10, of Range II,
as may be determined and located by said
railway company and build and main
tain depot with Side-track at such
point north of the north boundary line
of Fremont township, in said
Lyon county, as may be determined
and located by said railway company,
and build and maintain one or more
depots with side tracks in Jackson
township, in said Lyon county, at such
point or points as may be selected and
determined by said railway COM
pany. And provided further that
the terminal facilities of the first di-
vision ending at Emporia shall be 10
Gated within one-half mile of the cor
porate limits of said city of Emporia.
And provided further that work on
the north line of said railroad shall
begin on or before the first day of Sep
TENDER, 1887, and twenty-five miles
from Emporia on the north line to be
graded in the year 1887, and tied and
roned on or before the 18th day OF
March, 1888, and provided further
that work in practical manner and
with force of men sufficient in mum
Der to guarantee the completion of said
road within the stipulated time afOre-
said, shall commence on or before the
first day of August, 1887, at or neal
Kansas City, Missouri, or at the city OF
Emporia, Kansas, as may be determined
by said railway company; and provided
further, that twenty-five miles of saiG
railroad on the main line from said Kan
sas City to said city of Emporia shall be
completed with construction trair
in operation thereon on or before
the 31st day of December, 1887
and provided further, said railway
company is not delayed or prevented by
any litigation or by any order or iudg
ment of any court, or by general Labor
Strikes" or by extraordinary rains OF
high waters, from completing said rail
road or any part of the same
part of the same in operation
as aforesaid at or within the time
or times aforesaid and if said railway
company is so delayed or prevented
then in that case the time, for and dur
ing which said railway company is Sc
delayed or prevented from completing
said railroad or any part of the
same as aforesaid at the time
and in the manner as aforesaid, together
with fifteen days additional time shall
be added to the time or times aforesaid
in which to complete said railroad, pro
vided, however, such delay is not cauS
The form of the ballots to be used al
said election shall be: "For the sub
scription of stock and issue of bonds t6
the Missouri Kansas s. South Western
railway company" and against the
subscription of stock and issue of bonds
to the Missouri, Kansas s. South West
ern Railway COMPANY"
And the said board of county com.
missioners, having carefully examined
and duly considered said petition and
being fully advised in the premises
doth duly find that said petition is il
due and legal form, and that it is il
writing, and that said petition is duly
signed by two-fifths of the resident tax.
payers of the said county of Lyon, and
that said petition requests a specia
election to be called and ordered in said
Lyon county, for the purpose of sub
hitting to the duly qualified electors
of said county of Lyon, proposition
to subscribe to the capital stock of the
Missouri, Kansas & Southwestern
Railway company in and to the amount
of one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars for and on behalf of said county OF
Lyon to be paid for by the bonds of thu
said county of Lyon, and that the saiC
petition contains the terms and condi
tions upon which it is proposed
| to make such subscription